Now one Huddersfield student has become the next person to turn his broken heart into a career.

Dale Green has created one of the first ever “meaningful” video games Samphi, inspired off the back of a failed relationship.

It may sound a far cry from the violence and car chases often associated with gaming, but Samphi is now in demand across the world.

The game begins as a man carrying nothing but an axe and a shovel, with the player using it to create their own virtual world and “travel through broken memories of a failing relationship to try and salvage what’s left”.

Dale, 21, said: “I had already started building the game when I broke up with this girl at the end of college.

Screen grab from Dale Green's game "Samphi"

“I had a bit of trouble dealing with it and the game was a bit of a way I could channel that.”

Dale, who is studying for a BSc in Computer Games Programming at Huddersfield, said the game was a product of an “existential crisis”.